It has been almost seven years since the mid-2006 peak of the spectacular U.S. housing bubble. With an American housing recovery now at last under way, it is a good time to re-state the ...

Resident fellow Alex J. Pollock explores the parallels between the recent government bailout of the investment bank Bear Stearns and the government’s 1984 rescue of Continental Illinois, the largest ...

Editor’s Note: There’s an explosive opportunity hiding in plain sight that most investors are completely missing. And yesterday, my friend and InvestorPlace colleague Luke Lango went public with what ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author and Johns Hopkins University financial history professor, Kathleen Day, on the history of the debt ceiling. You may have heard this before. The federal government ...

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals. To Christians, love of it is the root of all ...

How are wars financed, and how do wartime fiscal arrangements shape post-war political and economic orders? Recent geopolitical developments and rising tensions between global powers have put these ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...